Metadata and Copyright Information Not Exporting in Affinity Photo 2.2.0 Desktop PC

[dpick]

I've created some designs in Procreate and then importing them to Affinity Photo V2.2 to create them in various sizes. I have all the information in the meta fields and have the box checked off to include it with the export. 

When I export the image as JPGs, sometimes it includes the metadata and copyright info and sometimes it doesn't. When I export as a PNG file, it never includes the information, no matter what I do.

Why is this happening? This is very important to me when I am uploading the images to my website and I want to be sure that all the information is included to help protect my images. Can you please fix this issue ASAP? I would really appreciate it.  Thank you.

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2 hours ago, dpick said:

…When I export the image as JPGs, sometimes it includes the metadata and copyright info and sometimes it doesn't.

Are you able to give steps of a particular workflow where it doesn't embed metadata when exporting as JPG (for example, is this when exporting from the Export Persona, rather than File > Export)?  Ideally, also upload a sample JPG file that it happens with here in a ZIP file.

 

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…When I export as a PNG file, it never includes the information, no matter what I do.

The PNG file format historically didn't support standard metadata formats (I.E. IPTC, EXIF, XMP).  While the authors of the PNG specification did finally add official support for metadata chunks fairly recently (2017), they took so long to add it quite a lot of applications such as Windows File Explorer never added support for it.

 

[Steps]

I've just observed the same issue. When I save my TIF file as a PNG, the XMP metadata is preserved as anticipated, but the EXIF metadata is omitted.

I believe Affinity Photo should be updated to support the EXIF chunk introduced in 2017.